With their model WAGs, £600,000 homes and diamond encrusted Rolexes, Albanian rappers certainly appear to be doing well for themselves in the UK - despite never topping the charts.

Performers such as MGee and Lucii are among the dozens of drill artists to amass thousands of Spotify and YouTube subscribers thanks to their songs - which often promote gun crime and drugs while taking a shot at Britain's institutions.

It comes as their countrymen continue to dominate the international cocaine market, flooding Britain's streets with the Class A drug and using extreme violence, including executions, to deal with anyone who stands in their way.

In social media posts and music videos, some rap stars appear to support the criminal lifestyle as they mock British police, who they brand 'pigs', while boasting of owning Skorpion machine guns and sharing advice on how to break into car windows.

While some rappers insist they have no links to the criminal underbelly, for others, the lines appear more blurred. The Hellbanianz gang, for example, is highly feared on the streets of London and has many rappers in its ranks, and multiple members in prison.

The group sparked outrage last year when it released a music video showing armoured vehicles fitted with heavy machine guns parading around a housing estate in the capital.

It came as 'Falcons' Fabion 'Gucci' Kuci and Azem 'Ziro' Dajci brazenly filmed themselves inside prison cells at Wormwood Scrubs as they awaited sentencing for burglary and posted pictures and footage to Instagram and YouTube.

Their social media presence - including rap videos - is feared to be part of an elaborate PR campaign to 'recruit footsoldiers' from Albania by tempting them with wads of cash and luxury cars.

It was found last year that many of the Albanian youngsters who leave for England are boys who believe traffickers' tales they can get rich quickly in the UK – and many do so without their parents' consent.

Just this week, an Instagram story posted by rapper Lucii - who has never revealed his real face and is not part of the Hellbanianz gang - showed wads of cash piled up next to dozens of old Apple iPhones.

He was also seen zooming through British streets in a luxury 4x4 with fellow artist Hek, as they both flashed their jewel encrusted Rolex watches.

Lucii, who dons a variety of Satan-like masks in his videos, has 125,000 Instagram followers to whom he posts pictures of himself with bikini-clad women and videos driving expensive cars.

Koke is the director of the Stay Bizzy rapping collective which features multiple Albanian performers.

In another video, London-based Albanian Ya Goddy boasts about being car chased by police, who he brands pigs, with one clip showing him being pulled over and handcuffed by two actors posing as Metropolitan Police officers.

MGee also mocks police in one of his music videos, as he and a group of rappers flash their gang sign at a passing patrol car.

(Source: Daily Mail)